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I have been using Weav Run for a while now. I really wanted to like this app, as it has a near-ideal feature set for my running. Unfortunately, i have found it to be very inaccurate in its measurements. For example, during a run where I am going at a steady pace of roughly 8.5 minutes/mile on level ground, the app will wildly vary in my supposed pace - from as low as 6 minutes per mile (I wish!) to 14 minutes a mile. The app also does not save runs accurately. For example, after a short 23 minute run today (again at a steady pace), after hitting “save” on the run, my run time mysteriously changed to 19 minutes. This is an extremely common occurrence. My running cadence also is commonly saved incorrectly as well. Bottom line - if the developers would only fix the most glaring measurement bugs, this would be a really great running app.

I am one of those people who find running to music very distracting. The difference between my running cadence and the tempo of the music is very off-putting. So, I was very excited to try Weav Run. I tried the mode that adjusts to your running pace, but that seemed difficult to use. I deliberately changed from a slow jog to a fast sprint, but the tempo of the music did not seem to adjust—at least not very promptly. Perhaps I should have been more patient. I switched to fixed tempo easier to use. The user interface is very clear in this aspect. I found it a little hard to find a good pace—but that’s me, not the app. Once I figured out that 162 bpm was perfect for me, everything went smoothly. My main criticism is that the actual music isn’t good. The selection is limited to performers I’ve mostly never heard of. The interface for downloading music is also unclear. In my opinion, what would make the app a killer would be the ability to listen to your own iTunes songs. Obviously there would have to be some kind of pre-processing to prepare your favorite tunes for tempo adjustment, but I don’t see why this couldn’t be done. I wouldn’t expect this to work real-time. I’d be happy to make a playlist of songs from my iTuned library, process those through a PC application and then download those into Weav Run. Perhaps there is some kind of licensing issue, but if there isn’t, the feature I am describing would make the app a real keeper.

It looks like a lot of people really love this app, are motivated to run faster, and have found that it improves their pace significantly. That’s awesome and I’m really glad it works for them. I also think it’s amazing what they’ve done by re-engineering the music. I preface my review with admiration over that attention to detail since I’m a musician too. However to me the tempo changes are distracting, and a lot of the music just sounds too fast for its own rhythm, melody and phrasing. I thought maybe choosing a “Fixed Tempo” would solve it by playing only songs that are written for that particular tempo. While it does stay consistent, it does so by the same method, adjusting the tempo of every song so they still all sound rushed. It pretty much goes against all of my musical training to play something too slow or too fast and worst of all, to drag or rush the beat. Anyway, good luck to you all...it’s a fabulous idea. I’d love to try it again when I can choose a tempo and it filters to a playlist of songs in their original tempo.